On 10/26/05, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 09:57 PM 10/25/05, James Harless wrote: > > >I appreciate the suggestions, but, not quite what I'm looking for yet. > >Either of these would allow me to whitelist someone AFTER they had been > >greylisting. What I'm looking for is a way to whitelist them based on > user > >input.. before their initial email has been sent. In this somewhat > typical > >scenario, the user has contacted me and said "I don't want mail from > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delayed... whitelist them, please." > > > spamd only delays the *first* message between the two parties. After that > there is no delay - as long as sender continues to use the same SMTP > server.
My experience is that greylisting requires at least 2 failed attempts. Maybe my pf.conf isn't setup properly. But, there's always 1 'extra' failure that seems to me should pass through. Have you tried whitelisting these servers: > http://greylisting.org/whitelisting.shtml > > Is there an underlying assumption in your question that spamd is the > actual > problem? During the initial weeks of using spamd on my server, half of the > complaints about undelivered email were not the fault of spamd. > > I do whitelist the servers on greylisting.org <http://greylisting.org>. There's no real doubt that greylisting is part of my 'issue'. It's not unmanageable, by any means, but, I'm just wondering if there isn't a way to correct the problem. Greylisting is 99% of the time not a problem. But, sometimes, the client is on the phone with a customer or in some other situation where they need to receive the email quickly. With my current greylisting setups, I can't guarantee any time when they'll receive the first email from a contact other than 'will take at least 5 mins and can take much longer depending on how their mail server is configured'. In any case, it's not unmanageable. I just set expectations with customers and they're not wanting to move away from greylisting. But, it does *feel* like a 'solvable problem'. --James -- What would Bilano do?
